Movie Quotes by John Waters

I was in the 'Alvin and the Chipmunk' movie, which was a real bucket list item.

— John Waters

I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie.

— John Waters

I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie.

— John Waters

I want to be in a 'Final Destination' movie.

— John Waters

Terrible things always seemed to happen to hitchhikers in movies - including my own. It has always been glamorous and dangerous and…

— John Waters

I can make a movie for $5M, which used to be a routinely low, independent movie, but there's no such thing as…

— John Waters

I want to be commercial. I'm never the person who says, 'I don't care if people don't see my movies.' I always…

— John Waters

I have so many other things going on that if 'A Dirty Shame' is my last movie, that's OK.

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God knows if you could start a new sex act that's more important than making a good movie.

— John Waters

When I started my goal was to make a successful underground movie. I started making movies in the mid-60s. Underground cinema then…

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Time marches on and I don't care how people watch my movies as long as they see them. I don't care if…

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My father was horrified by my movies, yet he lent me the money to make the early ones. And I paid him…

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They all want you to make a movie for under a million dollars, which I don't want to. I don't want to…

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You have to remember the police used to raid and arrest the audience for seeing Scorpio Rising (1964), or Jack Smith movies.…

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I was always flattered, but I just want my movies to make money. I want to be commercial. I'm never the person…

— John Waters

So to make movies, if you're first goal is to make money, well you can! Make a tent-pole movie that China wants.…

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I think I'm probably the only person that, when the parents lent me money to make the movie, they wished I had…

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I just went to Times Square and the underground movies, sometimes three a day. I did get my education. But I really…

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Maybe I'll just write books. I'd like to make another movie, but I don't want to go back and [do] what they…

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New York was the last place that my movies caught on. I didn't make underground movies in New York, and in the…

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“Hairspray is the only really devious movie I ever made. The musical based on it is now being performed in practically every…

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To me, the most important thing is the script. I would never make a movie that I didn't write. I wouldn't know…

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People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.

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I believe if you come out of a movie and the first thing you say is, 'The cinematography was beautiful,' it's a…

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Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take…

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I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.

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I built my [early] career on negative reviews. There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the…

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I like film books at the bottom of the barrel and art books at the top. 'The Ghastly One,' by Jimmy McDonough,…

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Things are going great in every part of my life except movies. That's okay. I've got a lot of other parts of…

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My photographs are not really about photography. They are about editing. I use photography but they are all taken from the TV…

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I have no interest in ever making a movie I didn't write. If they were going to take my house away, then…

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I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank.…

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The worst thing you can do is make a cult movie. That means you got three great reviews and nobody went. An…

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I always want to see films that are startling and amazing. Not just shocking. Shocking is easy to do. But startling in…

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I liked speed. I was on black beauties all the time. Nothing bad happened to me. I didn't become a drug addict…

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Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing…

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It's still possible to make movies. Not so much on YouTube. On YouTube, you wind up with an advertising career. What movie…

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The few movies I can even think of that I watch over and over would be the Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton movie 'Boom!',…

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I was thinking about sort of the similarities between "art movies" and lowbrow movies like kitschy sexploitation films. I think they share…

— John Waters